Tag: Reinstalling

I’m working on an old HP tower that seems to not like any of the updates being pushed by Ubuntu. So I am still running 16.04. A recent update broke my entire system and I had to reinstall my OS. Since doing that I have not been able to find how I set the permissions for plex to be able to see my media folders.

They are currently split between two drives at the following locations /SharedSpace/Videos & /MyBook/Videos. This all worked last week and now I can’t seem to find instructions that allow plex to access those folders to populate the library.

I also can not find where how to move the plexMD folder from the home directory to a partition that has more space.

I bought a used iMac and when I turn it on I am shown the OS X Utilities screen. I would like to install the operating system but I cannot do so.

I have tried everything suggested on other questions on this topic:

Factory reset

I.e. formatting the hard drive (as instructed by Apple) and restarting. According to the Apple website, this was supposed to bring up the country selection screen, but it didn’t. It simply takes me back to OS X Utilities.

Resintall OS X

There is an option to reinstall OS X El Capitan. After signing into iCloud (with a new account I had to make for this – I did not have one before) I get the error message “This item is temporarily unavailable”. I have Googled this and tried the many fixes to no avail. Apparently the original user’s iCloud account should be used, but I do not have access to this, nor do I want them to be linked to this computer.

Other macOS Recovery modes

Apple gives key combinations for other recovery options. I have tried all three of them as instructed but I am always asked to enter the iCloud details.

Boot from CD

I do not have the original CD with the operating system on it, nor do I have access to a computer that can burn a bootable disk. (This is not an option I want to consider to be honest – resetting an Apple computer doesn’t require this according to the many guides and videos on this issue.)

If I reinstall Bitcoin Core, will my previous bitcoin wallet still be accessible or will I get a new wallet? The previous wallet backup became corrupted. Will reinstalling give me back my old wallet or is my wallet lost forever? I don’t have a wallet backup.

I use Google chrome daily but today there was a blackout for less than 1 minute and when I started up my pc, it had crashed, I uninstalled it after error messages but I cannot now re-install as I get an error message saying error of unspecified origin or something like that.

I uninstalled Google Docs on my android phone yesterday evening to make space for updating Whatsapp, then reinstalled Google Docs half an hour later. Didn’t think anything of it as it all backs up into Google Drive. However, all my recent documents (everything after December 2018) are gone! They are nowhere to be found, not even in Google Drive! How can this be? I can see in my backups that Docs’ was last backup was on May 8th. However, not sure how to access that. Please help! Thank you in advance.

when i first installed ubuntu 16.04 on my hpp001tx the wifi was not working,but it got resolved after using this command”sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source”. But now after one day I reinstalled the os and after typing in this command the terminal gives a error saying “E: Unable to locate package bcmwl-kernel-source”.plz help.by the way ubuntu is freshly installed no external software installed.thank you so much.

My brother formatted my PC, removed the older version of windows 7 and installed a new version. Before he formatted it, I encrypted some files using EFS in windows 7, I was using an account name: AAAA. I do not have the certificates from the older windows version. Can I open the old file that were encrypted using EFS?

Yesterday I decided to upgrade from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04 and to use a bootable USB drive to do that. The plan was to assign partitions of the 18.04 to the existing partitions of 17.10 but that’s where I think I hit a snag.

First, a little bit about my setup – it was a dual-boot system spread over an SSD and an HDD. Only the documents were stored on the HDD (think downloads, pictures, basically the entire /home folder and it’s Windows counterpart) – everything else was on the SSD.

Now, back to the problem – it looks to me like I created a second EFI partition by explicitly assigning the /boot location – which is how it used to be with 17.10, but it seems like it was installed in legacy mode. Here’s what the fdisk used to say before the reinstall.

It looks like this might be the answer to my problem – to install the Linux EFI bootloader to the existing EFI system partition – but I wanted to double-check with the community if that’s actually the issue. Thank you for any and all advice!